[HN Gopher] Stadium card stunts and the art of programming a crowd
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Stadium card stunts and the art of programming a crowd
Author : cainxinth
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-11-20 13:35 UTC (1 days ago)
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| sieste wrote:
| No mention of Kim Jong Uns personal stadium sized led screen?
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| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmxTy5L7Rc
| dylan604 wrote:
| Not sure why the continued use of the close ups was used. After
| the first one showing people holding cards, then maybe a second
| one to show how they are essentially flipping pages, but after
| that, the zoomed in totally loses the effect. Same with the
| close ups of the performers on the field.
|
| The point of these types of performances is not of the
| individual but the whole. It's a perfect bit of symbolism for
| communism. Why ruin it by showing the individual cogs of the
| machine?
| gwbas1c wrote:
| > Why ruin it by showing the individual cogs of the machine
|
| Because the individual cogs of the machine is quite
| interesting. Especially if you are interested in how people
| behave differently in North Korea compared to the free world.
|
| Besdies: It's Youtube, I'm sure you can find plenty of videos
| that aren't zoomed in.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| I know I've spent my entire life wondering if North Koreans
| hold up cards differently than the rest of the world. It
| turns out, nope. They hold them the same way as US football
| fans.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| IMO, it looked like they practiced.
|
| I wouldn't expect a football audience to practice.
| dylan604 wrote:
| the fact that their heads all pop up from behind their
| cards to look for the next cue at the same time was kind
| of telling on the rehearsed part. could you imagine
| asking a stadium full of drunk cheese heads to do this?
| cnity wrote:
| Read The Three Body Problem if you found this interesting/fun. I
| won't elucidate because it will spoil it.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| > At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton's
| supporters planned an arena-wide card stunt. Although it was
| intended to be a patriotic display of unity, some attendees
| didn't want to participate. The result was an unreadable mess
| that, depressingly, was supposed to spell out "Stronger
| Together."
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| I suspect that, as people get tired of these stunts and just want
| to watch the event, this will happen more and more frequently.
|
| People only like being bossed around so much. Once the novelty
| wears off, and the feeling of being part of something larger than
| oneself wears off, people will start screwing with these shows.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| I stopped reading once I got to the description of how the number
| of colors was cut down. The article quickly went from casual to
| deep.
|
| It's also not needed. PC Magazine used to describe these
| algorithms back in the 1990s with a lot less words, and a lot
| more pictures.
|
| Pictures are very useful when explaining what happens when
| reducing the total number of colors in an image.
| alexpotato wrote:
| >Pictures are very useful when explaining what happens when
| reducing the total number of colors in an image.
|
| Back in high school, there was a dedicated room for teaching
| psychology, AP psychology etc
|
| One of my friends found a book in that room's library that was
| about color perception. The fascinating part: the book had no
| color and was entirely in black and white. Even the diagrams
| they had were black and white line drawings.
|
| I always wondered: who sets out to write a purely text book
| about human color perception?
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| For one, such a book would be more accessible to people with
| disorders in color vision.
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